Two (1964)

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Movie
Original title Two
Country of production India
original language without
Publishing year 1964
length 15 minutes
Rod
Director Satyajit Ray
script Satyajit Ray
music Satyajit Ray
camera Soumendu Roy
cut Dulal Dutta
occupation

Two is a 1964 short film directed by Satyajit Ray .

action

The film shows the encounter between a rich boy in Kolkata and a boy from a slum whom he sees in front of his window. The rich boy has everything he wants; the poor almost nothing. Nevertheless, the former wants to demonstrate his superiority to the poor.

The poor boy tries in various ways to get in touch with someone of his or her age who lives in a villa, but when the slum boy plays on a flute, the other boy sounds him down with his toy trumpet; if he disguises himself in a mask and a spear, the rich man comes as a cowboy with a revolver; if he lets a little kite fly, the other shoots it down with an air rifle. Eventually he abandons his attempt to befriend the rich man. Satisfied with his demonstration, he is again playing alone with his toy robots. Only a short time later, the happy sound of the flute reaches him again. The boy begins to think about his defeat and two toy robots crash onto the floor.

background

Two was made as part of a series of three short films from India that were commissioned by US public television and produced under the name "Esso World Theater". The other two films presented Ravi Shankar and Shanti Bardhan's “Little Ballet Troupe” from Bombay . Ray was asked for a post in English that was set in Bengal, but he didn't like it. Instead he shot Two without words, based on his original script and accompanied only by his music.

Production designer was Bansi Chandragupta .

literature

  • Section on Two in Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye , Revised Edition 2004, pp. 252-253

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye , p. 252